<p>"<i>Through the Periscope: Changing Culture, Italian America</i>, engages well-established as well as cutting-edge discourses in <i>Italian Americana</i> from a widely informed, detailed and provocative perspective, therefore opening up new pathways to define and reconfigure our critical understanding of the field." — <i>Altreitalie</i></p><p>"<i>Through the Periscope</i> deliberately moves along the outer edges of the academic canon of Italian American studies and, at the same time, vibrantly calls for a long-overdue rupturing of the 'favola bella' of Italian cultural centrism [Marazzi's] study is characterized by thinking in cross-disciplinary and cross-epochal relations and references, a view through the periscope not only in terms of the study's contents but also from a methodological perspective." — <i>Modern Language Review</i></p><p>"This volume is required reading for anyone involved in teaching or researching Italian diaspora culture today. From the very first page of the Introduction, we are reminded of Martino Marazzi's unique ability to read the diaspora from transnational, transhistorical, and transtemporal vantage points that in each chapter open the field to areas of inquiry and comparison that are rarely spoken and, indeed, not widely known. Rich with examples that make the global local and back again, we see diaspora for what it is—an ongoing, relentless movement of people that tells us far more about human history and suffering than pat, nationalistic narratives that grind the energy of literary expression to a tentative halt." — <i>Italian Americana</i></p><p>"In his whirlwind tour through New York settings and remembered Italian landscapes, through Dantean poetic appropriations and dime novels by a 'Homer of Little Italy,' Marazzi joins the company of such scholars as Thomas Ferraro, Fred Gardaphé, and Samuele Pardini in giving new meaning to the internal diversity of the cultural lives of Italian migrants and their descendants and making the notion of an 'Italian American canon' questionable." — Werner Sollors, author of <i>Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America</i></p><p>"More than just issuing a provocative challenge to the Italian American literary canon (though it certainly does that), Marazzi's book proposes an innovative way of looking at Italian migrant subjectivity and consciousness through a bidirectional transnational lens. It represents a groundbreaking effort to reimagine the fields of Italian and Italian American studies, and in a way that enables those fields to more forcefully influence the larger ambit of American studies, trans-Atlantic literary studies, and diaspora studies." — John Gennari, author of <i>Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge</i></p>